_________________I would eat Dr. Cow pocket cheese in a second. I would eat it if you hid it under your hat, or in your backpack, but not if it was in your shoe. That's where I draw the line. -allularpunk

_________________Did you notice the slight feeling of panic at the words "Chicken Basin Street"? Like someone was walking over your grave? Try not to remember. We must never remember. - mumblesIs this about devilberries and nazifruit again? - footface

Thanks, everyone! It's the first day since she came down with kennel cough that she has been a bit perky and wanting to play, so she completely exhausted herself. I just had to put her to bed because she literally could not keep her eyes open and I thought she was going to fall asleep standing up!

how is she doing with her fear issues? i know you were very frustrated at the beginning and then i lost track.

She is still pretty bad. We haven't been able to work with her lately because of all the stuff going on (I was sick, and then my mom was in the hospital, and then my grandfather was in the hospital) and now she has kennel cough. Kennel cough is so super contagious that you are not supposed to bring your dog anywhere where other dogs may be for several weeks. So we can't take her to the park to work with her, or to obedience class. (We only got to go to the first class and had to skip the rest. They said they would refund the money, or we could sign up for another class when we are ready.) So I think she has probably gotten worse in the past few weeks, because we have not been able to get her out and work with her.

Holy crepe! I have a friend who has a dog named Tegan (a male though) who looks just. like. that. Uncanny.

I thought it was an uncommon name for a dog, because I have met hundreds of dogs and never one named Tegan. But since I got her, I have had several people tell me that they know a dog with that name!

If I'm honest, I did not put much thought into naming her. We needed to name her quickly because she was climbing on all the furniture and grabbing everything in reach, and we needed to be able to teach her to respond to her name to get her attention. She did not respond to her old name (Smiles) at all, and I didn't want to keep that. I really did not have any names in mind, so I borrowed a pet naming book from work that had hundreds of name suggestions. But my mom didn't like any of the names, and I knew she would make her displeasure known if I picked a name that she hated. I went through that with Sable (she refused to call Sable by her name for the first 6 months because she hated it so much!) and I didn't want to deal with that again. I went through the whole forking book and we still hadn't agreed on a name. I was so frustrated. I started throwing out random words (donut! chair!), and then I started naming characters from Doctor Who off the top of my head. I got to Tegan, and my mom said "Oh, that's pretty!" so I said "Fine! Tegan it is!"